Improvement in metallic hoops



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

(I. L. ALBERGER, OF BUFFALO, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN METALLIC HOOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38.139, dated April 14, 1863.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, J. L. ALBERGER, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metal Hoops for Barrels, Oasks, Tierces, Ste. 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of ,the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l represents one of the hoops in question. Fig. 2 represents the hoop-iron before formed into a hoop. Fig. 3 represents a section through the hoop.

My invention consists in corrugating or creasing a metal hoop, or the strip of nie-tal out of which the hoop is to be made, and in the line of its length, so that when such hoops are on the barrel, Cask, or tierce, and it is rolled over the ground, it will roll on such corrugations or creases, and not upon the wood of the barrel or other cask, thus protecting the barrel from wear and tear and other injury.

To enable others skilled in the art to make use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A represents a hoop made after my plan, a being the corrugation or crease in it. This corrugation or crease may be pnt into the hoop after it is made; but I prefer to have the hoop metal rolled out with the corrugation or crease rolled in it, and afterward bent into the desired form. The lapping and riveting of such hoop metal, as seen at b, is as readily done as the Hat hoop-iron, and it may be spliced to lengthen it as readily, thus making little or no waste. If found desirable, holes c may be punched along the edges of the strips or hoop to nail it to the cask, barrel, or other vessel made of staves.

Instead of a single groove, corrugation, or crease in the hoop or hoop-iron, there may be two or more of them, and of such height or depth as may be found beneiicial, and the groove or corrugation, instead of being circular in section, may have perpendicular sides, or nearly so. The corrngation or crease adds much to the sti'ness of the hoop but this is incidental to the invention and not its purpose, the purpose being to hold up the ca'sk or barrel on the corrugations or creases as it is rolled over. rlhe corrugated hoop, too, I lind will grip the staves more tightly than the hat one.

Vhen the hoops are made of iron, the iron may be galvanized or zinced to prevent corrosion.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- A hoop for barrels, casks, tierces, or other vessels made of staves, having one or more corrugations or creases in it, for the purpose herein described.

J. L. ALBERG-ER. W'itnesses:

WV. C. ALBERGER, JASPER Hopen. 

